GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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Sophie Cameron - To Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
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The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
To Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Sophie Cameron
No Hugh I will not make a lunch box
I will not turn my hand to broad bean hummus
Or lobster fucking bisque
Because you say I should
Because you say I’ll be better for it.
I’m quite happy to sit back
And watch your deeply contrived fiction
With a slotted spoon and a warm Viennetta
And compare it to my own factory-farmed reality.
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